Here's my proposal for a phonetic spelling system for English.<\/p>\n
1) The only time letters might be doubled is when a vowel sound is held out long, for example, the end of \"Utah\".<\/p>\n
2) Many schwas are not represented by a letter--if there's really a vowel sound in there, we don't punt and call it a schwa, we figure out what it is and spell it with that letter.<\/p>\n
3) Glides are spelled by combining the vowels that make them up.<\/p>\n
4) Letters that duplicate the sounds of other letters are used for some other sound.<\/p>\n
5) Accents are added to letters to make the sounds we don't have letters available for.<\/p>\n
6) Unaccented vowel pronunciations are chosen to match their Spanish and romanized Japanese pronunciations.<\/p>\n
7) No silent letters.<\/p>\n
Here's a list of the letters and glides and how they're pronounced. A few will be a little weird, because an available letter is getting reassigned:<\/p>\n
Keyboards would need an \"accent\" key, similar to the \"shift\" key, for easier typing. Until then, on Macintosh, the accents are added to the vowel by typing option+i and then the vowel, to the \"n\" by typing option+n and then \"n\", and to the \"y\" by typing option+i and then \"y\". All of the accented characters are part of the ISO-8859-1 character set (which is a subset of UTF-8), ensuring widespread availability.<\/p>\n
Meibi Ai'l h\u00c3\u00a2v tu start raiti\u00c3\u00b1 y\u00c3\u00aes wei tu si \u00c3\u00aef \u00c3\u00aet w\u00c3\u00ael k\u00c3\u00a2c an.<\/p>\n
...or in other letters...<\/p>\n
Maybe I'll have to start writing this way to see if it will catch on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here's my proposal for a phonetic spelling system for English. 1) The only time letters might be doubled is when a vowel sound is held out long, for example, the end of \"Utah\". 2) Many schwas are not represented by a letter--if there's really a vowel sound in there, we don't punt and call it...
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